From 4 million years ago
Although history books in the libraries of the world suggest that Africans came from ape-like creatures (Australopithecus) that walked the continent, two million years ago and eventually evolved into human beings, African cultures and tradition dissagrees Africans Collectively believe in a God or existance of a supreeme being, (creator)
About a million years ago humans explore northwards out of Africa, beginning the process by which mankind has colonized the planet....

Buganda: 19th century
Uganda, on the equator and surrounded by the great lakes of central Africa, is one of the last parts of the continent to be reached by outsiders. Arab traders in search of slaves and ivory arrive in the 1840s, soon followed by two British explorers. Speke is here in 1862. Stanleyfollows in 1875.
The ruler visited by both Speke and Stanley is Mutesa, the king (or kabaka) of Buganda. His kingdom is one of four in this region which have become firmly established by the m...

Orientation
Identification.The Iteso comprise the second-largest ethnic group in Uganda and a significant portion of the non-Bantu-speaking minority in Kenya's Western Province. The Iteso of Uganda have not been well described, but significant studies exist of the political and economic dimensions of colonial rule in their territory. For the Iteso of Kenya, there are substantial studies of social organization, social change, and ritual processes. The Iteso have an undeserved reputation in Ken...

At the time the British arrived, Kaaro Karungi, as Ankole was known then, had evolved beyond Isingiro, Rwampara, Nyabushozi and Kashaari counties. FILE ILLUSTRATION
By Henry Lubega
At the time the British arrived, Kaaro Karungi (as Ankole was known then), had evolved beyond Isingiro, Rwampara, Nyabushozi and Kashaari counties.
In the 17th Century, the chiefdom of Mpororo started disintegrating and became part of Nkore, later Ankole kingdom. Only two chiefs are talked of in the oral tra...

Left to right: Omukama Tito Winyi IV of Bunyoro, Kabaka Edward Muteesa II of Buganda, Governor of Uganda Andrew Cohen, Ankole’s king Charles Godfrey Gasyonga II and George David Kamurasi Rukidi III of Tooro in the 1950s. Kingdoms were banned in Uganda in 1966 and restored in 1993, except for Ankole. FILE PHOTO
By Henry Lubega
The kingdom of Ankole, as it was known until the abolition of kingdoms in Uganda in 1966, was a creation of the British colonial administrators.
What came to be k...

Ankole Kingdom, abolished in 1967 by President Milton Obote along with other kingdoms in Uganda, has a long history.
Most writers say that by 1967, it had existed for between 500 and 600 years. It started as the kingdom of Kaaro-Karungi (the beautiful land) before it became Nkore kingdom. Due to mispronunciation by the whites, it eventually came to be popularly known as Ankole.
In his book, “A History of Ankole,” Dr H.F. Morris, who was district officer in Ankole up to 1890, says the king...

The Mugabe of Ankole with the Queen and the Duke’
The Banyankore are a Bantu group. They inhabit the present districts of Mbarara, Bushenyi, and Ntungamo in western Uganda. People from the present countries of Rujumbura and Rubando in Rukungiri District share the same culture. Originally, Ankole was known as Kaaro- Karungi and the word Nkore is said to have been adopted during the 17th century following the devastating invasion of Kaaro-Karungi by Chawaali, the then Omukama of Bunyoro-Kitara....

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Sierra Leone – Background
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LASSA, NIGERIA
When Rebecca Gadzama meets with the teachers she oversees, they sometimes hold the meeting outdoors, under trees in open fields. It gives them a chance to spot danger and run in case of an attack. The Islamist militant group Boko Haram is still an ever-present danger in northeastern Nigeria and is still against people being educated in Western-style schools.
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